Jeboda v. Danza

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Bayne, J.), dated October 1, 2014, as denied that branch of his motion which was pursuant to CPLR 3025 (b) for leave to amend his answer to assert the affirmative defense that, at the time of the subject accident, his vehicle was being operated without his permission.

Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law and in the exercise of discretion, with costs, and that branch of the defendant’s motion which was for leave to amend his…